Idaios (Korybant)

Idaios ( Greek  Ἰδαῖος ) is the leader of the Cretan corybants in Greek mythology .

The late antique poet Nonnos von Panopolis named him in his Dionysiaka in the 4th century among the companions of Dionysus on his journey to India .

swell

• Nonnos of Panopolis, Dionysiaka 14, 34.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Idaios 6 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 95 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Jessen : Idaios 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, column 1193 ( digitized version ).